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What else can they do other than retire? Not only has the Federation suffered massive military defeats, but their narrative about themselves has just been completely debunked.

Welp, there goes all the Federation's legitimacy. This drives the nail in the coffin harder than any military defeat could.

Interestingly, somebody else came to a similar conclusion: https://friesian.com/trek.htm

The Terrans never really moved beyond the need for religion and belief in a higher power. That higher power just became the Federation. After all, what was the Prime Directive if not a holy precept? Notably, even in Kirk's day the Federation wasn't an atheist state (and was notably far less...

It seems to extend to stories about 'villain' factions that don't present them in a wholly lulzev0l light. I certainly doubt whether I could have written my own fanfics in the present climate without getting more abuse.

I mean, the Liberator was handed out to the Resistance movements in Europe by the Allies under the idea that it would be used to kill Nazi soldiers and loot their guns.

The Prime Directive in all its moral incoherence was apparently originally a Vulcan doctrine as well ...

Not to mention that with those time travel episodes in Voyager, it seems the Eugenics Wars weren't even that big a thing ...

Talk about once bitten twice shy ... one mess-up with genetically enhanced segments of the population before the Federation itself existed, and they enact a total ban on genetic research, including curing genetic diseases?

Not to mention how unreliable Transporters are, with the multitude of things that can block them.

Apparently in the post-TOS shows, even crewmen take four years at Starfleet Academy. I'm not usually a fan of the semi-gnostic "canon is actually IU propaganda and the Federation is really a communist dystopia", but a set-up so impractical reeks of something fishy to me.

The TNG era was the tail end of a century or so of peace ... no surprise they would start slacking.

Apparently you would have to turn the TNG hand phaser upside down and fiddle with a concealed panel to reload it.

Not only does the type-1 have horrible ergonomics, it needs to be partially disassembled to be reloaded. IIRC the old SDN page about its flaws speculates that it was designed intentionally to not look like a weapon ...

Isn't that basically Star Trek 40k by now?